Introduction: John Rawls and the crisis of American liberalism -- Justice as fairness -- The second principle of justice -- "Choosing" principles of justice in the original position -- A just constitution -- Economic justice -- Civil disobedience vs. the right of resistance -- "Goodness as...

Liberalism, libertarianism, and economic justice -- Capitalism in the classical and high liberal traditions -- Illiberal libertarians : why libertarianism is not a liberal view -- Distributive justice and the difference principle -- Rawls on distributive justice and the difference principle --...

Avoiding the greatest plague of all : Plato and Aristotle -- Societal responsibility and the undeserving poor : John Locke -- The noble poor : Jean Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith -- Empirical influences and the complexities of poverty : Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill -- Poverty as a...

Who toils? : race, equal opportunity, and the division of labor -- Against leveling the playing field -- Against limiting opportunity -- Egalitarianism of opportunity and other egalitarianisms -- Can everyone be esteemed? -- Opportunity for what? : defending the constellation -- Sharing labor --...